Elton John's home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft.

- Bernie Taupin

'Captain Fantastic' was the first album in history to enter the (American) album chart at number one. We did it for a second time after that. Now tha…

- Bernie Taupin

I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy an…

- Bernie Taupin

My favorite thing is coming up with titles. The majority of the songs I've every written I've always thought of the title before I've written the son…

- Bernie Taupin

Early risers catch the world waking and see its true colors.

- Bernie Taupin

My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were…

- Bernie Taupin

One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.

- Bernie Taupin

Basically it takes me very little time to write a song. If I find myself taking more than an hour to do it I usually forget it, and try something els…

- Bernie Taupin

Read books, discover the blues and don't Tweet.

- Bernie Taupin